Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than any other U. S. fighting man, the Marine is a professional. He does not mind being called a mercenary. Much of the Corps' fighting has been done while the nation was at peace. Without the thrust of wartime patriotism and the applause of the folks at home, Marines have gone thirsty and lousy, won medals, died. Today a whole regiment camps in Shanghai, the hottest spot in the troubled Orient, where a sergeant's blunder might throw the nation into war with Japan. In such spots, the Marine Corps' mercenaries do the job as they...
...deepest thrust into the infinitesimal, he can thank a microscope that sees things without the help of light. This is the electron microscope. With it, in Camden, N. J., Berlin, London, Toronto and Pasadena last week, scientists studied things 50 times smaller than they could see a decade...
Professor Hall writes in part as follows: "You conclude that the conscientious objector who has informed himself 'as to the type of work involved in various jobs that will be thrust at him . . . is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system!' . . . Perhaps your conclusion means that it is the function of a conscientious objector to do all that he can to hinder and defeat war preparations by others. If so, I suggest that this is beyond the legitimate scope of the activities of a conscientious objector...
...first task of the conscientious objector is to fix in his own mind what his conscience will permit him to do. Then he must inform himself exactly as to the type of work involved in the various jobs that will be thrust at him, so that he will not blunder into something that violates his convictions. Having done this, he is prepared to throw his full weight against the war system...
...south of Asmara in Eritrea, and, more particularly, over the oasis of Siwa deep in the desert near the Libyan frontier, and at Metemmeh in Ethiopia near the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border, indicated the British were keeping their air eyes open for signs of any new thrust toward the heart of the Nile Valley...